Carlisle Manor Health Care

To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.927536 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our next category, this facility didn't perform well. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's poorest category grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Based on its poor grade in this category, we weren't shocked to discover this nursing home provides far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.